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Job Details

Requisition Number

18-0303

Post Date

8/9/2018

Title

Peer Specialist Respite

City

Danvers

State

MA

Description

MH Respite Program

Peer Specialist

Eliot’s Adult Mental Health Division provides an integrated and comprehensive network of services to adults with psychiatric disabilities that promote consumer
rights, responsibilities, rehabilitation, and recovery. We provide rehabilitative services that enable people to increase functioning in the living, working, and social environments of their choice.

Join a committed team of professionals in providing counseling and recovery services to adults with severe
and persistent mental illnesses in a short term Respite setting.

Responsibilities'

Provide information, support and training on recovery tools and techniques, self management strategies and self management plan, as desired.

Assist consumers in becoming fully integrated into their communities. Provide help and mentoring including advocacy and direct assistance.

Salary: 14.90

Schedule:Tuesday- Friday 11-4

Requirements

At least two years of paid or volunteer experience working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness and a high school diploma/GED equivalent. May substitute one year of experience with a college degree in the human services field. Must be either
receiving mental health services or received services in the past and have self-knowledge to manage their mental illness with and established recovery process, and have skills to establish supportive relationships with persons with severe and persistent mental
illnesses and respect for their preferences for treatment. Must have ability to provide flexible services that are community based and focused on team work.

Eliot Community Human Services offers a great benefits package that includes a competitive salary, 3 weeks vacation, 12 sick days and 11 holidays. Eliot pays 75% of health and
dental insurance and 100% of Life, AD&D, Short and Long Term Disability insurance for full time employees. We also offer 401(k) retirement plan, Dependent Care plan, EAP, credit union, free college savings tuition program and other voluntary benefits. The
agency also has our own in house training program which provides CEU’s.